Fond Memories of WNUE

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 "WNUE was the ONLY radio station when I was growing up in FWB and I always had it blaring in my room while I was cleaning my Horse Tack!" - E.W.

"Listened on my car radio for years!" - D.F.

 "I used to date a dj from nue back around 76 to 77. I'll have to think to remember his name but he had a dj roommate, Christopher Cross." - L.O. 

"GABBY BRUCE was a regular at THE LANDING..my good friend Gabby hired me to open DADDY'S MONEY.1984..rest is history." - J.H.

"Remember it well! I think one of the DJs might have lived behind me on Staff Drive. He would give us kids stacks of records." - K.B. 

"I remember Dan the radio man, he worked from 2-12 WNUE. great times back then. I use to go by the station to visit him. What a cool guy. Smoked Camels with no filters." - T.S. 

"Time to get up, get out of bed, fill your cup and get ahead with 1400, WNUE! Woke up to this for several years!" - C.D.B. 

"My first job while in high school was there tying the DJs daily log sheet as to what to play and ads." - M.R.Y.

 "Several reasons why I remembered WNUE - AM1400! One was I thought the DJ who went by the name of “Sandy Beach”! As a teenager in the 60’s & 70’s, that was just about as cool as it got! Another reason, when I stocked shelves at Delchamps on Racetrack Rd. At night, we would all take a break at midnight and tune to WNUE to listen to the midnight broadcast of Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly! Our combined drum solo on the check-out counters was legendary! And finally, at one point, I had a girlfriend who lived just down the street from the station! We’d pass by the station most days when I would drive her to FWBHS. I went to Choctaw! Go Big Green!" - W.F.

"Great radio station to listen to & I lived down the street from them, loved their DJ's!!!  - C.A.

"I remember those days! Drove by that building so many times in my youth. Lived not too far away. That was THE station to listen to." - R.H.G.

"Oh, how I remember that station. That's what our radio was tuned to. I grew up right around there. Wished I could bring back those times." - S.P.S.

"AM station, listened to it all the time back in the early 80s." R.R.

"It was right around the corner from my house!"  - A.M.M.

"My family won so much money and prizes from this station back then. We were always listening to WNUE. With Gabby Bruce and Steve Oday. Not sure about the spelling of his last name. Sorry. Wow, that is some great memories." - L.S.M. 

"That building (WNUE) is still standing. Only now it is the office and a few classrooms for Oakland Baptist Church." - C.K.B.

"Flashback to being at Wayside & every so often WNUE would remind us all "time to turn don't burn". It was the only station to listen to so all of us were tuned in on our transistor radios." - M.M. 

"This was my life!" - A.H.

"I remember they used to have fund raising contest to see how long they could stay awake while announcing." - D.D.

"The Innerlight Surf Report: 'There's a small break outside which could be surfable later in the day...' " - C.B. 

"Wow - now that is a flashback 'Transistor radios' !!!! I had a little blue one I carried in my purse. Great memories! I bet the kids today don't even know what a transistor radio is! Haha!" -  K.G.W.

"My first radio job was with Brian Baskin & Steve O'day aka Stephen Baldwin." - C.T.

"Dutch Van was actually my dad and Theresa's Grandfather!! Yes, he was a great man in our family to and we sure do miss him!! Have you ridden by the old station lately! It's now a church!! Mom and I visited there and walked thru (the office part which hadn't changed) and boy did all the great memories come back!!! The church is very friendly, and we had a very nice time there with Lee who was the WNUE secretary!!"  - Shelia VanBuskirk Justen

" I was Anniversary Annie at WNUE one summer. I still have the t-shirt! Ahhhh, fun memories! I was Anniversary Annie because Dutch Van (Sheila Shelia Van Buskirk Justen's dad) thought I could do it...I had absolutely NO experience. It was during the Summer of 1978, and they were celebrating the station's anniversary (like 25th or 30th...can't remember). I drove around with Chip Nelson on the morning drive and Bob Kay on the afternoon drive...stopping at different places and giving away stuff. I couldn't drive the WNUE NewsHound car, because I wasn't 21 and the insurance wouldn't cover me, so the guys had to drive me. The t-shirts we gave away were light green in color and were screen printed with the WNUE Summer of 78 logo...I'll have to take a picture of mine and put it on here sometime. What fun! " - J.B.T.

"I was the emergency secretary!!! I was so under pressure typing the log for the guys only 1 hour away from going live!!! Lol I also took the call-ins for the sports show so I got those shout-out calls that people thought would be live on the air!! WHEW!!! I saved the audience from hearing a lot of $&@"( !!! LOLOL" -  Shelia VanBuskirk Justen

"I remember back in the late 80s, my parents would hassle me about getting a job with more hours, I'd stop by WNUE and see if they were hiring dj's. Dr Johnny Fever made that job look like so much fun on tv." - G.W.

"I remember those days too. lol I won an album off you Julie aka Annie. In fact I think I still have it with my collection of LPs." - K.M.

"I used to win contests on WNUE in mid to late 60s." - HB 

"We got pulled over by the WNUE Newshound car to get a prize for having one of those dayglo orange balls on our radio antenna. Can't remember what the prize was, maybe a free dinner somewhere?" - L.B. 

"I am sure that the PE coach was Coach Tom Grant.  He had a talk show on WNUE Nue Hits 14 called "Let's Talk Sports."  I loved to call the show, and in my pre-pubescent voice of the day say, 'Hey Coach, I wanna play pick'em.'  I think he respected me a little bit more during gym class for it.  He could be a real hard ass; not Mr. Woodcock-like or anything, but a hard ass nonetheless.  Hey Aubrey, we're all waiting with bated breath for your story over at the 'Breaking the Boundary' discussion topic." - G.B.  

"I can still hear their there sing-song tagline – Fourteen hundred…….WNUE! I carried a radio around all day with me, glued to the station." - S.V.B.

"Anybody remember a long running DJ named... (dang, what was his name!)? He organized a bunch of us and brought in experts to teach us about pollution. We went to classes and around town for months picking up litter, and hiked 175 miles to Tallahassee along Hwy 90, camping out each night to meet the Governor on the capital steps. There were about 35 of us, from Choctaw and FWB High, including Mike and Mark Newell, Blake Conklin, Cyril Kidder and others. He wasn't the best chaparone in the world for the hike, but we had some great fun! Anyone else in this group participate? Some of the guys had really huge, miserable blisters bleeding through their boots. I wore flip-flops most of the way with no problem other than wearing completely through." - P.C.

"They had a Saturday morning breakfast show and for some reason I went to one. I won a rabbit! Daddy built a pen for it." - J.T.S.

"I lived on the street with Bill Borthwick who managed the station. The kids in the neighborhood got to ride in the "news hound" occasionally and got "backstage" tours of the station. The neighborhood kids even got to cut a couple of commercials one Saturday afternoon. Bill's wife Betty Borthwick had an afternoon program on the station with household tips, etc. I do remember Dutch Van and Kirk Donovan, too." - C.M.